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A self-confessed atheist has become a believer after mocking God by sarcastically praying for his mother to win the lottery. However, his joke prayer was amazingly answered as the next day his mother won $1 million on the New York Lottery Sweet Million game.

Sal Bentivegna, 28, who did not previously believe in God, had sarcastically asked his mother to “ask your God for a million dollars”.

However, his mother Gloria Bentivegna, follows the Catholic faith, and staying true to her belief refused to ask God for such a thing.

Taking his joke further, Sal then prayed out aloud saying, “God, I don’t know if you’re real or not, but if you are there, please let my mother win a million dollars.”

The following day his mother bought a “Lotto Tree” of unscratched instant win tickets from [a] Church’s charity auction. Sal was then left absolutely stunned when he found out his mother had won a million.

Realizing that the odds of his mother winning were so farfetched, Sal has now become a firm believer.

He testified, “I can’t shrug off that Jesus had a hand in it.”

“No pun intended, but it was a Godsend,” he said.

Some perspective from mother:

Gloria Bentivegna, reflecting on what had happened, is thankful to God for her winnings, but even more thankful for her son’s conversion. She said: “’God performed two miracles, a true miracle.” [Christian Post]

I’m very happy for mother and son, and the story also provides some details I like – for instance, the mother refused to pray for a winning lotto ticket and seems to be happier about her son’s conversion than the money she won. Also, the son got exactly the amount he asked for – an interesting wrinkle.

That said, when God intervenes miraculously in people’s lives it’s normally not in the form of winning lotto tickets (think instead, deliverance from despair, pain, evil, death, etc).

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